NEW ZEALAND
ASSESSMENT OF ITS LAND BASED AQUACULTURE
The New Zealand Aquaculture Industry primarily evolved in the 1970s through its pristine fiords and estuaries where Mussel, Salmon, and Oyster farmers have developed their industry productivity to provide lucretive returns from consistant products that have become world renown for their unsurpassed quality.
In 1986 New Zealand Government established the Fishing Quota System (FQS) turning the Country's wild caught fishery into a free for all foreign fishermen. The problem with the quota system is that the New Zealand Corporation which is really a Quasi Government had no authority to Commercialize the Country's Seafood Resources that belonged to the Sovereign Maori Nation. Within two years the inshore fishery was devastated, prompting the Government to investigate Land Based Aquaculture Farming. The first Abalone hatchery course was held in 1988 which founder attended, with the intention to establish Abalone Farming. A very similar species of Tuna identified as Kingfish was also developed to expand New Zealand's Land Based Aquaculture Industry.
The document below is the latest developments in New Zealand Intensive Land Based Recirculating Aquaculture Systems (RAS).
Note that the designs and returns on investment are calculated for fish only systems that have a small discharge. The purpose of us providing this document is to compare costs and ROI with the FST system that has a ZERO DISCHARGE with positive reuse of fish waste for growing plants in either fresh or salt water hydroponic systems. The FST system uses air pumps to circulate water that exchange the water every 24 hours. This system allows solar energy to power to whole system. With FST proprietary feed blend grown on site, the cost of feed is less and of far better quality than what is commercially available to others growing fish for food.
In 1986 New Zealand Government established the Fishing Quota System (FQS) turning the Country's wild caught fishery into a free for all foreign fishermen. The problem with the quota system is that the New Zealand Corporation which is really a Quasi Government had no authority to Commercialize the Country's Seafood Resources that belonged to the Sovereign Maori Nation. Within two years the inshore fishery was devastated, prompting the Government to investigate Land Based Aquaculture Farming. The first Abalone hatchery course was held in 1988 which founder attended, with the intention to establish Abalone Farming. A very similar species of Tuna identified as Kingfish was also developed to expand New Zealand's Land Based Aquaculture Industry.
The document below is the latest developments in New Zealand Intensive Land Based Recirculating Aquaculture Systems (RAS).
Note that the designs and returns on investment are calculated for fish only systems that have a small discharge. The purpose of us providing this document is to compare costs and ROI with the FST system that has a ZERO DISCHARGE with positive reuse of fish waste for growing plants in either fresh or salt water hydroponic systems. The FST system uses air pumps to circulate water that exchange the water every 24 hours. This system allows solar energy to power to whole system. With FST proprietary feed blend grown on site, the cost of feed is less and of far better quality than what is commercially available to others growing fish for food.
